Special thanks go to:
Hanne Larsen and Cristina Dimen, for managing and guiding the teams who entered, described and marketed our auction items. You attention to detail is unbelievable! You two are unsurpassed! Thanks to Brooke Thomas, Linda Moutinho, Haniwa Gottlieb, Eve-Lynn Schefer, Irene Glazer and Stacy Roger-Gordon for entering the hundreds of auction items into our data base. Our wonderful team of marketing writers: Laurel Walker, Nicky Ellis, Andrea Keifer, Nancy Usiatynaki, Keven Duffy, Michelle Gutierrez, Diane Morin and Vivien Lewit, thank you for your hard work researching each donation and writing about them! Thanks to all of you – the crunch time was intense and you pushed through with such poise!

Irene Ganiaris – you are a gift from the heavens! Thank you for so capably developing and maintaining our website, for designing letters, forms, our catalog and whatever else we asked for with a cheerful “sure, no problem!” You have been such an asset – but more than that, a total pleasure!

Christine Wong for being so insanely efficient and capable! You made our online catalog marvelous... the giving tree beyond lovely... and our auction well merchandised! You are amazing!

Andrea Keifer, new to the school but not to auctions, your willingness to “do whatever it takes” and your fresh ideas were so greatly appreciated!!

Keri Bannon for being our expert technical assistant, whipping up spreadsheets and proofing reading list after list! Your help was awesome and greatly appreciated!

Susan Salgado for always being there with help, support and advice!

Steve McGrath for sharing your knowledge and passing it on, in addition to ALL your guidance and support!

Wendy Prince for your insanely brilliant legal advice that helped us in a really tricky situation. Only you could have come up with such a creative solution!

Julie Pitman for designing such a rockin’ website and providing brilliant graphic guidance. Sandy Tam and Jaime Vinas for stepping up at the last minute and putting together such creative and beautiful signage for auction night.

Gina Gee for once AGAIN turning our 21 year old school into the hoppin’ Club 234. You are the best!

Eric Silver for passing the torch and providing guidance on the ever-popular staff raffle and ticket sales. Noami Daniels for picking it up and running with it! You are such a pleasure!

Tina Sibulkiun-Yacker for rockin’ it with our Merchandising Committee. You did it again! Christine Wong, Angela Folit, Rachel Moskowitz, Keri Bannon, and Suzanne Valetutti for your invaluable help! Your amazing efforts and hard work combined with creative genius helped make our auction items look amazing!

Sara Lebow for taking on the food donations this year and Gina Gee for the valuable guidance you offered her. Sara you did such a wonderful job! Cynthia Savino and Angela Folit for helping assist Sara in gathering the most delicious food for us all to enjoy tonight!

Demetri Ganiaris for helping us both select the auctioneer and assemble our exciting list of live auction items!

Donations Committee: Beth Berridge, Loretta Lester, Jamie Hort, Lisa Metcalf, Cynthia Savino, Naomi Daniels, Demetri Ganiaris, Kerri Bannon, Eileen Connaughton Monague, Kathryn Fay, Paulette Goto and Nicky Ellis you ROCK THE HOUSE! You accomplished a tremendous feat in the current economic environment – more donations than ever before! Your efforts were truly remarkable!!!

Juliet Hindell for saying “sure!” – you organized and gathered our lovely volunteers for us so effectively. Eve-Lyn Schefer for offering Juliet your guidance.

Our lovely Giving Tree would not have been possible without the creative genius and organization of Christine Wong. Thanks to Tien and Cameron Lardner and Abby Goldstein for cutting and pasting the wishes together and to Kerri Bannon for keeping them all organized!

To our wonderful Class Parents for coordinating your class’ effort to create truly unique and fun class baskets! And a very special thanks to Melissa Roberts and Kim Petersen for organizing and assembling them so beautifully!!!

Eric Colby for printing the 500+ bid sheets and for keeping them all in order!

Edward Baez for being our “night of” tech guru! You have been wonderful!

Lisa Ripperger and Elizabeth Sweeney, the Office Staff, the PTA Executive Committee and all our teachers and staff for their very warm and generous support of the auction!
To all of the parents for the fantastic array of donations for auction night, and for being here to bid! Thank you for your generous support.

To all the volunteers who took time from their busy schedules to set up, register, check out, monitor auction items, and clean up, thank you! Beth Berridge for offering your time to watch the kids while set up was happening – you enabled many parents to be able to help us without worrying about their kids!

And to our families, who we abandoned to organize this event! Thank you for your patience and for tolerating so much take-out!

Thank you – we love you!
Nicki and Dawn